As a relatively pleasant Friday hangs around, here are some more things going on:
From Morocco World News, Morocco extends a strict coronavirus lockdown in the city of Casablanca for two more weeks.
From Hürriyet Daily News, according to President Erdoğan, Turkey pulled back the seismic survey ship Oruç Reis to allow for diplomacy with Greece.
From Turkish Minute, Erdoğan launches a unit to wage information warfare.
From Rûdaw, Iraq asks European countries to send observers for its upcoming snap election.
From Panorama, the 2020 European Heritage Days will be celebrated in Armenia later this month. (via The Armenian Reporter)
From In-Cyprus, a sea cave in Monagroulli, Cyprus is restored.
From The Syrian Observer, early marriage is reportedly increasing in Syria.
From Arutz Sheva, according to Deputy Health Minister Yoav Kisch, Israel will consider closing synagogues on Yom Kippur and banning demonstrations.
From The Times Of Israel, Israeli police draw their guns on a man trying to run a roadblock.
From The Jerusalem Post, who could replace Benjamin Netanyahu as Israel's prime minister?
From YNetNews, Israel observes the Jewish New Year under coronavirus lockdown.
From the Egypt Independent, 30 countries will move their embassies in Egypt to its New Administrative Capital.
From Egypt Today, President Abdel El Sisi approves amendments to Egypt's custom tax law.
From the Ethiopian Monitor, Ethiopian authorities arrest several people in connection with violence in the state of Benishangul Gumuz.
From the Saudi Gazette, Saudi Arabia dismisses reports that its detention centers are overcrowded.
From The New Arab, rogue Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar announces a conditional lifting of a blockade of the country's ports and oilfields.
From Radio Farda, 150 Iranian activists condemn the execution of athlete Navid Afkari.
From IranWire, what happens to Iranian clerics who oppose forced veiling?
From The Express Tribune, former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will virtually attend an all parties conference.
From Pakistan Today, new coronavirus cases rise in Pakistan as schools reopen.
From Khaama Press, the U.S. embassy warns of a possible attack by the Taliban in Kabul, Afghanistan in which women will be targeted.
From The Hans India, the Indian and Pakistan armies trade fire along the Line of Control in Kashmir.
From the Hindustan Times, an Indian state secretary points out that distributing copies of the Koran is not a crime.
From ANI, almost 30 potential coronavirus vaccines are reportedly being developed in India.
From India Today, satellite imagery shows a Chinese army build-up in the region of Depsang.
From the Dhaka Tribune, an experimental ferry operation starts on the Shimulia-Kathalbari river route, which had been suspended.
From the Daily Mirror, Sri Lankan police will allow motorcyclists and three-wheelers to have more space.
From the Colombo Page, police in the Colombo suburb of Bloemendal seize 33,000 kilos of illegally imported turmeric.
From Maldives Insider, 12 things to do in the Maldive Islands.
From The Jakarta Post, Indonesia's Tourism and Creative Economy Ministry plans to provide three-star hotels to isolate coronavirus patients with mild symptoms.
From The Straits Times, thousands of people in northwestern China are infected with brucellosis after a leak from a biopharmaceutical plant.
From the Borneo Post, according to Health Minister Adnan Baba, over 500 Malaysian health workers have contracted the coronavirus.
From Free Malaysia Today, political "big guns" leave their homes to hold campaign events ahead of assembly elections in the Malaysian state of Sabah.
From Vietnam Plus, the Vietnamese province of Quang Tri tries to deal with the aftermath of Storm Noul.
From The Mainichi, a team including a Japanese scientist wins the Ig Noble prize for acoustics by showing how helium raises the pitch of an alligator's voice.
And from Gatestone Institute, the E.U. has become Hizballah's "intersectional partner".
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